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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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